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We present a formalism for the calculation of multi-particle one-loop amplitudes, valid for an arbitrary number N of external legs, and for massive as well as massless particles. A new method for the tensor reduction is suggested which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich , E. Pilon , C. Schubert

In this presentation, we review the general features of integrand-reduction techniques, with a particular focus on their generalization beyond one loop. We start with a brief discussion of the one-loop scenario, a case in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-01 Giovanni Ossola

The existence of a finite basis of algebraically independent one-loop integrals has underpinned important developments in the computation of one-loop amplitudes in field theories and gauge theories in particular. We give an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-19 Janusz Gluza , Krzysztof Kajda , David A. Kosower

To entirely determine the resulting functions of one-loop integrals it is necessary to find the correct analytic continuation to all relevant kinematical regions. We argue that this continuation procedure may be performed in a general and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Bruecher , J. Franzkowski , D. Kreimer

We introduce a novel structure for Feynman integrals, reformulating them as integrals over a small set of parameters with a fully controllable integrand. The integrand closely resembles one-loop Feynman integrals, and they are very easy to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Li-Hong Huang , Rui-Jun Huang , Yan-Qing Ma

We calculate the three-loop master integrals contributing to the three-loop five-point amplitude on the special Coulomb branch of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. For the genuine pentagon integrals, we follow the approach of Ref. [JHEP 12 (2025)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Andrei V. Belitsky , Leonid V. Bork , Roman N. Lee , Andrei I. Onishchenko , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We evaluated all two-loop conformal integrals of scalar half-BPS six-point functions in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM restricted to a configuration where all points lie on a line. Moreover, we also computed some of these integrals in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-14 Ricardo Rodrigues

Planar L-loop maximally helicity violating amplitudes in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are believed to possess the remarkable property of satisfying iteration relations in L. We propose a simple new method for studying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Freddy Cachazo , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Loop amplitudes are conveniently expressed in terms of master integrals whose coefficients carry the process dependent information. Similarly before integration, the loop integrands may be expressed as a linear combination of propagator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Harald Ita

We consider the analytic calculation of a two-loop non-planar three-point function which contributes to the two-loop amplitudes for $t \bar{t}$ production and $\gamma \gamma$ production in gluon fusion through a massive top-quark loop. All…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

In the present paper the two and three point functions which occur at the study of the various physical processes are considered. The investigation has dan in the framework of the perturbative theory at the one loop level. The general and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Devidze , G. R. Jibuti

Using the results recently obtained for computing integrals over (non-minimal) pure spinor superspace, we compute the coefficient of the massless two-loop four-point amplitude from first principles. Contrasting with the mathematical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Humberto Gomez , Carlos R. Mafra

We report on the advances in the calculation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for five-particle processes with one off-shell leg. Focusing on the production of a Higgs boson in association with a bottom quark pair, we outline how the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Jakub Kryś

Problems occurring in physically important non-trivial examples of loop calculations are discussed. A procedure of deriving expansions of two-loop self-energy diagrams with different masses is constructed. The cases of small and large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Davydychev

The calculation of the two-loop corrections to the three-jet production rate and to event shapes in electron--positron annihilation requires the computation of a number of two-loop four-point master integrals with one off-shell and three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-29 T. Gehrmann , E. Remiddi

Recent Developments in computing very specific helicity amplitudes in two loop QCD are presented. The techniques focus upon the singular structure of the amplitude rather than on a diagramatic and integration approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-15 David C. Dunbar , John H Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

The infrared exponentiation properties of dimensionally-regularized multi-loop scattering amplitudes are typically hidden at the level of the integrand, materializing only after integral evaluation. We address this long-standing problem by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Robert M. Schabinger

In this paper I review some old and new works on the computation of two-loop 4-particle amplitude in superstring theory. I also present the proof by Iengo, showing the vanishing of the term related to the two-loop correction to the $R^4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chuan-Jie Zhu

An improved method is presented for the numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals in dimensional regularization. The technique is based on Mellin-Barnes representations, which have been used earlier to develop algorithms for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ayres Freitas , Yi-Cheng Huang

We propose a first implementation of the integrand-reduction method for two-loop scattering amplitudes. We show that the residues of the amplitudes on multi-particle cuts are polynomials in the irreducible scalar products involving the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Giovanni Ossola